1 john 4:16 sermon

(1) In the Bible, God appears as the Giver of every good, the Fountain of all blessings. The Obligation of Love 4:11-16. by Chester McCalley. This concerns itself with the misery and ruin which sin entails, and furnishes, in the room of these evil consequences, peace and joy and hope, everlasting consolation and eternal life. I will take two qualities of His human life — the qualities of insight and power — and I will show you in their exercise the contact and influence of the life of God. Pauline Epistles Pain is the exception, not the rule, in human life. Some feel that if God really loved them He would answer all of their prayers. Jesus has promised to be with me to the end of the age. The Blue Letter Bible ministry and the BLB Institute hold to the historical, -------------------- It is a real home for the spirit, a real dwelling place for thought. What tremendous powers of motion and commotion, what dissolving, recomposing forces come upon, or into a soul, when it suffers the love of God. Does this close the exhibition of this scene of love? Minor Prophets 2. The Father seals the Mediator. 1 John 1:1-4 . To feel God's love is very precious, but to believe it when you do not feel it, is the noblest. Blue Letter Bible is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. To ask what more A sinner of mankind, doing the utmost possible, can be expected or required to do. Pauline Epistles For if a man but offers himself up trustfully and clear of all hindrance to the love of God in Jesus Christ, saying, though it be in silence, "Be it upon me; let it come and do its sweet will in me"; plainly that is but letting God love him, and yet what is it but faith? I. verses 9, 10; Romans 5:8; John 3:16). THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF LIFE THROUGH LOVE. Poetical Books The question then is, What is moral good — genuine virtue? God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” King James Version (KJV) The laws of life are like the rules of the game. IN THAT HOME OF REST AND JOY, WHICH HE HAS PREPARED FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE FAMILY OF HIS REDEEMED (Ecclesiastes 12:3-5). In all the life of our Lord I read our text, and in his death it is proclaimed with an almost irresistible fullness and force that "God is Love.". I. It is worth noticing who it was through whom the Holy Spirit spoke these words. 3. Matter cannot think or study. The New Testament Wonderful things in the Bible I see, this is the dearest that Jesus loves me. Johannine Writings The New Testament II. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select an Ending Point 5. II. 6. Pentateuch They have proved the means of repressing or of extirpating corruption from the heart. doubt and care and self resign, While He whispers in my ear, b. 5 Outlines. Luke-Acts Poetical Books We may not understand all, but we know that the thread of which we have hold will lead us to the heart of the mystery. We do not render service to a taskmaster. God loves you too much to answer all of your prayers. True love, like the love of God, must be ceaseless. "Love is of God, for everyone that loveth is born of God." Then the capricious and wayward woman becomes a ministering angel. It adapts them to the means of enjoyment provided for them. B. God has so constituted us that we must always feel that we are free. The sufferings of our race are only like one dark and stormy day in a whole year of smiling and joyous sunshine. INTRODUCTION. God has intimated to us that our planet dwelling does not include all His intelligent family, and that His system towards us is very imperfectly developed. AN EXPLANATION OF THE TEXT. And now, do not these two states make up a summary of Christian experience? 1. III. In all these various manifestations of the Divine character, we find evidence of the text, "God is love." Bible > 1 John > Chapter 4 > Verse 16 Library • Free Downloads • eBibles 1 John 4:1-6. Every Christian is to be a testifier. Read John 4:1-42. Historical Books He also told his disciples, “You are the light of the world,” and told them to let their light shine that people, seeing their … The love of Jesus for His own is a SANCTIFYING LOVE. No general declaration of God's love will answer this purpose. Now these finer qualities do not appear only in moments of sudden heroism. 2. IN THE PROCESSES OF HIS AFFLICTIVE DISCIPLINE. 2. The same thought may reach us in another way. His ways please the Lord, and therefore He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. And what do we behold in this declaration? Now, the bulk of the difficult questions touch physical or intellectual problems. Light and colour are pleasant to the eye, as sound is to the ear, as mere sensations in reference to the organisms which they affect, and apart from the perception of them by the intellect and the feeling of them by the heart. Break the chess rules and we only provoke disappointment. 1. IT IS INEVITABLE THAT OUR MAIN THOUGHT OF GOD SHOULD COLOUR OUR RELIGIOUS LIFE, AND THROUGH IT OUR ORDINARY LIFE AMONG MEN. First: That the love of God is manifested in the exercise of justice, or in the punishment of sin. The words of tenderness spoken to the healed were from human lips; but the love which informed them, and the life by which they had power to heal, were Divine. There is no fear of this love waxing cold and being dried up in the redeemed, when we know that they live in God by a life of faith, and that God by His Spirit lives in them. Partiality or favouritism, without reference to personal merit, is a mark of weakness, which is common in the human, but impossible in the Divine. And what shall we say of Divine ordinances, which are the mediums, the organs of conveyance of all spiritual good, to the souls of men? Jun 2, 1985. Joel Gibbs Gibbs Evening 1 John 3:11-18 The blessedness which awaits us in the future is but the unfolding of the present life of the soul. And God, who is Love, leaves His children to learn through experience. God therefore desires for us the very best that can be. "He gave his only begotten Son." There was a certain granitic sternness in the character of Christ, as well as soft and gentle words and smiles. We must be constantly on guard against the doctrines of false teachers. Since the text and audio content provided by BLB represent a I observe next that the elements in Christ's life which reveal this dwelling of the soul in God are present, however dimly, in all Christian life. The love of God in the gift, the humanity, and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, stands not apart from efficient results. The Word of Life. Series: I John. A Christian eye, like the Master's, sees possibilities of penitence, of well-doing, and salvation in outcasts, heathen people, and embruted slaves, in whom other eyes see nothing but material for wrath and scorn. Love seeks the highest good, and therefore love sets out the field of life in such a sort that the best qualities of life may be called forth. For it is such kind of love as ought to create, and must, a deep, all-revolutionising ferment, in the moral nature. God's works were known to Him from eternity. Sermons on 1 John 4:16. He therefore will not enforce our love or compel our faith. And it is on fields like these that tenderness and pity and such high qualities have shown themselves. Minor Prophets Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness. "How great is His goodness, and how great is His beauty!". Now that it is Spring, some mocking bird in our neighborhood is in love, and he sang his love song all night long. It seems to become more and more fertile, more filled with springs and streams of new thought, more glorious with dawns and sunsets of vision and human hope, the oftener it is visited. 1 John 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. 2. a. Without this they would not have reached us. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." Reflections of lectionary text, pop culture, current events, etc. God is love. INDENTIFYING FALSE TEACHERS. Not only are we undeserving; we are ill-deserving; we have merited his wrath; yet he imparts to us the gifts of his love. It is not possible to escape the boundaries of the flesh or to break the bars of thought; but it is possible to cherish good and loving thoughts. 1. What is the result of our love being perfected? The beast of the field sees not the beauty of the flower. True love, like the love of God, "seeks not its own.". Therefore God can only seek man's highest good, and man's highest good is in character. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation. The spiritual insights to which dwelling in love admits us are foregleams of the vision we shall behold in heaven. It is a dwelling in God here: it will be a dwelling in God there. 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General Epistles Far more is this the case with a mature soul's admiration of some far-reaching principle in nature or art. 2. The Old Testament God is love, contemplated in Trinity. 1. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son. 1 John 4:16. "God so loved the world, that he gave," etc. If their doctrine contradicts what God has already revealed, they are to be rejected (this is akin to what John wrote) CONCLUSION 1. IV. B. ", II. The ills that flesh is heir to and the mental perplexities awakened by strange questions press heaviest upon us. "The love of the Spirit." Every pleasure is thus doubled to man. -------------------- a. I think of the words of that song: "He whose heart is kind beyond all measure. unmute. GenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomyJoshuaJudgesRuth1 Samuel2 Samuel1 Kings2 Kings1 Chronicles2 ChroniclesEzraNehemiahEstherJobPsalmsProverbsEcclesiastesSong of SongsIsaiahJeremiahLamentationsEzekielDanielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachiMatthewMarkLukeJohnActsRomans1 Corinthians2 CorinthiansGalatiansEphesiansPhilippiansColossians1 Thessalonians2 Thessalonians1 Timothy2 TimothyTitusPhilemonHebrewsJames1 Peter2 Peter1 John2 John3 JohnJudeRevelation, Select a Beginning Point But the love in which in this way the soul finds a home is much more than an object of thought; it is life, power, law as well; it is the life that stirs at the heart of Providence, the power that causes all things to work together for good, the unseen law behind events, which Christian faith searches for, and in which at last, in sunshine or cloud, it rests. There are affections which weaken, enervate, and degrade the soul. Life is like a game of chess. So the universe is an embodiment of the ideas of the Divine mind, a revelation of the thought and feeling of the Creator. 3, 5. D. Have you ever been in love, truly in love? The fulness of life's lesson is not otherwise learned. Another thing we can bear testimony to, is this — that the love of God is unconquerable. "You must cut the diamond," said Thomas Jones, "to understand its value, and to behold the play of its tremulous colours when the sun-rays fall upon its surface. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above," etc. Close. a. John said, "Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. He was given to labour and suffer and die for men, in order that they might have life and joy (cf. There is inauguration into office. And in relation to the origin of evil, whatever dark suggestions may be presented to our mind, we always feel that it cannot be of God, but is against him. Perhaps this verse in first John, is the verse of all verses that encapsulates the very essence of God and his plan of redemption. Pentateuch II. 5. Are we left to shift for ourselves as we passed through the wilderness of this world? In this sacred enclosure all things work together for good: even things evil do not come to us with power to hurt. Our love for Him is a response of His great love for us. It identifies love with God's essence, with the very root of His character and life. Besides what they see there is something which they feel. Pauline Epistles 4. The heart that beats in His breast is that of the High priest of mankind. An Encounter is a Heavenly Appointment. The Gospels Commentary, 1 John 4:7-21, Judith Jones, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2015. 1. The word translated known in our text comes from the Greek word gnosko which is to know by experience. The weak and depraved reason of man may be so perverted as to charge or implicate the Almighty with the origin and presence of sin; but the heart and conscience never do so. This is the disposition which dwells in the mind of the Framer of all things to delight in whatever He has done. God must, in rendering the creature accountable, promulgate a law. Love must seek the highest good. 4. "He giveth us richly all things to enjoy." The Christian activities, tendernesses, and mercies to which love impels us, are earnests of the as yet unimaginable activities and tendernesses of the world to come. That will transform, that will new create, in that we shall live. Johannine Writings VI. And as for pain, think of the bitter Cross, and of God not sparing His own Son there. Scripture: 1 John 4:16-18, John 14:27, John 13:34-35, James 4:7-8, 1 John 3:1, Philippians 3:7-8 (view more) (view less) Denomination: Free Methodist. I will not expatiate on the functions of conscience and of love which are spiritual faculties bestowed for the moral government of ourselves and of the race and for the supreme and noblest kind of happiness attainable on earth. We have often revolted, but we have never found Him unwilling to forgive. In creation. But our ground of experience is wider and deeper still when we view the obvious purpose for which the spiritual part of our nature is given. As stars on the background of the midnight sky, the higher qualities of human nature have been seen among the dark mysteries of life. The better it is known the more it is frequented by the meditating spirit. All the Divine perfections resolve themselves into love. First of all, the certain continuance of that spirit of love, whereby the Lord's people are called. It is not for Himself, but for them that He loves them. It is the spirit's promised land, the land flowing with milk and honey, where the King of the spirit is to be seen in His beauty. But now we have come to that step in the ascent of our inquiry at which we are face to face with the wonder we have been preparing from the outset to understand. 1 John 4:16 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] 1 John 4:16, NIV: "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.God is love. 4. Take away any, and you have destroyed the symmetry and beauty of the whole. The Gospels Remorse, penitence, prayer for pardon, efforts to repair wrongs which have been done, - all these prove that man feels himself, and not God, to be chargeable with sin. This contemplates simply moral obnoxiousness and liability, or guilt, meeting it with acts which may remove it, as also by influences that may subdue the depravity from which that exposure to punishment or that guilt could alone arise. We do not seek to be good for the sake of reward, for love's service is given for love's sake, and not for fee or gain. The great objection to this solution of the question is, that it exhibits the Divine Being as more selfish than many human creatures. THERE IS A TEST Vs. 1. Autumn, with its maturity and mellowness and plenty, proclaims the fidelity and bountifulness of God. 4. 1 John 4:16 New International Version (NIV) 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. In verse 9 John tells us, "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 1. So we read in an earlier verse. Thus do afflictions bring to light what was latent in the heart. It is thus that the freshness of the gale and the fragrance of the flower can be enjoyed by the soul as perceptions as well as by the body as sensations. The redemption of the soul is most precious and most difficult. 3. Now, love's scope is best seen in hours of trial and pain. The procedures of His disciplinary providence have contributed to sanctification. III. b. He enjoys it first as to his body, his animal nature, and then as to his soul. And this abiding good, called character, is the good which God desires for His children. Men must be treated according to their actions. The mind can study the material and the spiritual, the creature and the uncreated. Out of the combination of our freedom and the fixed powers of the men come our discipline and skill in playing the game. To carry out a benevolent plan must be as benevolent as the plan itself. This is the heart of the message of the Bible. So that when the love gets welcome, it has dissolved everything, and the newborn peace is the man new composed in God's living order. c. I have no fear for my immediate future. d. This also was the desire of the song writer when he wrote: David Guzik :: Génesis 14 – Abram Rescata a Lot y Conoce a Melquisedec, G1 - alpha - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV), David Guzik :: Hechos 9 – La Conversión de Saulo de Tarso, David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 – Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltería, A Summary of Each Bible Book - Study Resources, Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Matthew 7:6, David Guzik :: Génesis 3 – La tentación y caída del hombre, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus and the Holy Trinity (Walter Martin), Genesis 6-7 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), A Quiet Heart Means Confidence in God (Elisabeth Elliot), Genesis 1:1-8 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith), Genesis 4-5 (1979-82 Audio) (Chuck Smith). We may move our pieces where we please, but each piece has its assigned move. 1. IS THE MERCIFUL PROVISIONS OF HIS GRACE. Material, mental, and spiritual good we derive from him. 3. All that he can do to beget a new spirit in his fallen nature, is to offer up himself to the love of God, and let God love him. I take the text to mean that the love of God is manifested in a most striking manner in the history of our world; but most of all in the subject which the apostle has been discussing — the salvation of the lost and sinful through the mediation of Christ. Just in that way rises overhead and around the Christian soul the vision, the thought and memory of the love of God in Christ. Take away love, and a body without a soul is left behind. He is to be a witness with heart and lips. I can best reply to these questions by recalling two or three facts familiar to our Christian life. Scripture: 1 John 4:16-18, John 14:27, John 13:34-35, James 4:7-8, 1 John 3:1, Philippians 3:7-8 (view more) (view less) Denomination: Free Methodist. B. They dwell in God, and God dwells in them. "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ." God is Spirit and we are spirit too. The mind of man has been so wonderfully constructed, too, that he can find true enjoyment in the moral and the religious, in holy living and in praising God, and that, too, when his day of earthly toil is ended, and the frail body which was so useful to him is mouldering in the dust. ", A. "We know and believe the love that God hath to us." II. By proceeding, you consent to our cookie usage. So by experience of scientific knowledge we prove some degree of community of nature between ourselves and the Author of the world around us. 1 John 4:16-21 And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. Similarly the nobler qualities of character reveal themselves in hours of emergency and danger. 1. By your dwelling in God and God dwelling in you. The Old Testament Sermon Message. "The Lamb in the midst of the throne." 1. It needs, however, an eye akin with God's to perceive His will and His way. And we have known and believed Or have a full assurance and knowledge of, and faith in, the love that God hath to us; shown as in many instances, so more especially in sending his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, to be the Saviour of us, and that we might live through him. He goes to his house and he finds it stored with plenty — "his bread is given him, and his water is sure." The glory has departed, and the very life is gone. "We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is the initiator, I am the responder. I know that in His presence there is fullness of joy, and at his right hand pleasures forevermore. The terrible presence of sin and suffering in the world tends to make men doubt the love of God. I remark next that the love of Christ for man kind is VOID OF ILLUSION. c. They point you to the cross that you might see the supreme manifestation of God's love, hoping that it find some responsive chord in your heart. We can abide in the love God has for us by using our consciousness of this love to motivate us to avoid temptations to sin. Love is not only the element in which God works, but what works in that element is love. Can you remember the feelings? ", 3. Break the laws of life and we only meet grief. The highest good is greatness, purity, goodness of character. Consider, then — First: The plans or thoughts of God. It is the silent artillery of God, a salvation that wins by a dreadful pungency; raising up conviction of sin, to look on Him whom it hath pierced, moving agitations deep, stirring up all mires. It is a love not out of harmony with the sterner aspects of God's government, as seen in the world around us. 1 John 3 1 John 4:16-21 1 John 5 Return to the Main Player Favoriting is a great way to keep a list of sermons, programs, and ministry resources in your account. If you have fears, you have not yet been perfected in love. II. Who can declare the sweep and intensity of that little adverb "so"? Another time in which he knows his Father's love is, when he sees it after coming out of affliction. Glory and love are inseparably connected. Is it equally true that where there is no justice there cannot be love in its highest form? One cause of the failure must be sought for in the spirituality and elevation of the idea itself. -------------------- They have quickened in your bosom the spirit of prayer. Creation without mind is a body without soul, a dead form without vitality. The strongest faith, the intensest love, the profoundest gratitude, and the sublimest moral and spiritual power have been manifested, not by men in the clear day of their prosperity, but by the children of affliction in the dark night of sorrow." No anatomist ever discovered a system of organization calculated to produce pain and disease; or, in explaining the parts of the human body, ever said, 'This is to irritate, this to inflame, this duet is to convey the gravel to the kidneys, this gland to secrete the humour which forms the gout.'" We shall serve with zeal, completeness, and trustworthiness because we love. If we love them, all timidity and artifice will pass away. 4. -------------------- Pulpit Fiction, plus podcast. THERE IS TREACHERY Vss. -------------------- And Love worketh no ill to its children. Scripture: 1 John 4:17–19. "We love Him because He first loved us." 1 John 4:12-16 Theme: When we love one another in the power of the Holy Spirit, God's love is made "complete" in us. To this, nature has no satisfactory response. But times there are of thick darkness, when neither sun nor moon appear for many days; when the tempest rages exceedingly, and two seas meet in dread collision. f. The purpose of prayer is to see God's will accomplished. Happy, thrice happy they, who fall asleep in Jesus! The love, dwelling in which is one with dwelling in God, is not any love; it is not all that passes by the name of love: it is that love only which has been poured forth in Christ for the salvation of the world. Much of our suffering is self-inflicted. Herein is our love made perfect. 5. We have known the love which God hath to us — it is not a matter of conjecture, but of demonstration: "We have known, we have believed the love that God hath to us.". (2) God confers these blessings upon those who are entirely undeserving of them. Or if any doubt on this point may remain, I proceed —, 4. The experience of His perfect love for me has cast out all fear. We can abide in the love we have for God by praying at all times and praising His name throughout the day. The Holy Spirit indwells me, thus greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. 1 John 3:1-3 . "He that sitteth on the throne." A. They are sometimes and more often seen in the quiet fidelity and prolonged patience of love, in the ministry of devoted and self-denying lives. Here's how to make sure that you are not taken advantage of. "He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." ", b. Paul said, "God manifested His love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.". Possessing this spiritual nature as human beings we naturally believe in its likeness to, if not identity with, the nature of Him who is the Author and cause of all. Why Study 1 John? At such a time, noble is the Christian who can say, "Now it may be I do not know the love that God hath to me, but I believe it." Blue Letter Bible study tools make reading, searching and studying the Bible easy and rewarding. 3. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. What innumerable blessings flow down to us, from the exaltation and the advocacy of the Saviour! 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